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To: GourmetDan
Never, ever let a thing like being 'technically true' stand in the way of a good opinion.

A fact told without its context can be spun into essentially being a lie. Imagine this headline a while back:

Roosevelt is a Murderer!

Today, a large group of armed Americans were directed by President Roosevelt to cross into the sovereign nation of Germany and kill thousands of German citizens. One of the leaders of his group was even caught saying he personally wanted to kill the democratically elected head of the German government.

That is all technically true, but it constitutes a huge lie unless one knows the context.
42 posted on 12/12/2006 11:00:08 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
"That is all technically true, but it constitutes a huge lie unless one knows the context."

Well, Roosevelt may have been a murderer, but the text that followed didn't say that. DI didn't claim anything that they didn't prove.

You guys are just upset because the truth is being more widely disseminated than previously and that obviously must be the result of evil creationists.

48 posted on 12/12/2006 11:05:20 AM PST by GourmetDan
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